Bonus question: how much would a company have to pay you for you to give 100% effort at work?
I think what I get is ok, because I adjust my effort to the payment.
I don’t think I could give 100% effort at work, that would burn me out in no time and that’s not worth any money.
I don’t know because I think if people got paid fair wages the world would look very different, and the cost of living calculations we currently use to determine fair wages would change in ways I can’t predict.
I think that with aggressive progressive taxes, we’d see the range of incomes get compressed, and lift lower incomes. I’m not entirely sure how that’d affect cost of living, it’d probably go up, but wages would go up more.
But if I had to guess, if say everyone should be making between $100k and $300k, and I should probably be somewhere in the middle of that.
Funny enough, California has a very progressive tax system, and has higher than normal income inequality but a higher base standard of living than the rest of the US. I think having an economy with more opportunities for people inflates everyone’s income, including the rich.
But it brings up a question, if everyone were to have a decent standard of living, is it as big a problem that rich people exist? Obviously we’re not there yet, but hypothetically in a post scarcity world, it’s an interesting thing to think about.
The problem is loopholes, but I’m not a tax lawyer, which is why I provi such a vague answer.
I think that ostentatious wealth is a sign you’re not doing your share to help the society that supports you, so the disgustingly rich shouldn’t exist. But I’m not opposed to a little inequality as reward for doing important work or going above and beyond, but what we have now is crazy.
I wouldn’t really say that California’s tax is especially progressive compared to taxes in the past, like the golden age of the USA. But even then, lobbyists have opened so many loopholes that it doesn’t even really matter what the tax rate is
I should be able to own a home and raise a family on a single income as an engineer.
Glassdoor says that I should be making 90k or so
What do you make now? 90k sounds low.
$65k. I’m only 30 and in a low cost of living state. But yeah I’m at the low end of what my career makes. I’m shit at selling myself and I’ve struggled to get a leg up professionally so I’ve just wound up at a place that underpays me as I keep looking elsewhere
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My work is worth a hell of a lot less than I’m actually paid considering how many irrelevant meetings I have to attend, and probably a solid one million per year would do it. No promises I won’t start slacking as soon as your back is turned and I feel comfortable.
Found the manager
I’m not a manager, just the default Subject Matter Expert that they keep calling up. But I might as well be seeing as what I actually end up doing on a daily basis.
